Cycle 2, Week 1 - Metcon

JDG’s Tahoe WOD

10-8-6-4-2 power cleans, 185lb
2-4-6-8-10 HSPU’s

13:41 - not happy with this. No groove on HSPU’s - was finished the 4 power cleans at around 7 mins

Cycle 2, Week 2 - Bench Press

Bench Press
5x60kg
3x80kg
2x90kg
100kg
110kg
120kg
2Fx125kg (276lb)

11x100kg (221lb)

Going to hit a metcon tomorrow if it kills me. Interesting that my last sucessfull 5 was at 115kg and now I have missed a triple only 10kg higher. Not too much room to flip flop but I will keep pushing the high rep set and try and make ground there.

Cycle 2, Week 2 - Heavy Monday

Deadlift - 2” platform and reset

5x60kg
3x100kg
2x120kg
Singles from 130 to 180kg
5x185kg (408lb)

Back Squat
5x20kg
5x60kg
2x80kg
Singles from 90kg to 140kg
5x147.5kg (PB 326lb)

An hour later
10x120kg (265lb)

Cycle 2, Week 1 - Speed Deads

Speed deads

6x3x352lb (~80%)

Travelling for a course this weekend - gonna take some toys and see what i can get done in the carpark at lunchtime

Cycle 2, Week 1 - Metcon

“Harry”
30 push press, 135lb
Row 1000m
30 hang power cleans, 135lb

7:42 - push press unbroken and pretty smooth, row done in 3:25.9 and then it all went sideways. Biggest chunk of HPC’s was 4 but lots of 3’s and 2’s. This portion of the WOD took 2:45 or so. Grip was stressed and pop was lacking - breathing actually started to recover during this portion.

Cycle 2, Week 1 - Bench Press

Bench Press
Warm up
10x20kg
5x60kg
singles at 10kg increments to 120kg
3x122.5kg (270lb)

10x102.5kg (226lb)

No metcon - will get something in tomorrow. Proving difficult to get lifting and metcon in reliably so I’m just going to have to do what I can when I can. Lifts have priority so long as I get two heavy metcons in and one longer and lighter WOD a week.

Cycle 2, Week 1 - Heavy Monday

Starting Cycle 2 - was curious to see where things were after 3 weeks of extremely spotty workouts in general and ME work in particular. Things haven’t slipped to far apparently

Deads up to 5x403lb off 2” lift with reset - these felt pretty darn good, probably could have started where I left off at 409 but happy to run from here. Keen to see if the second cycle of pulling off 2” helps break my 1rm drought. Thoughts on shifting to a 3” lift now versus waiting till a re-test at the end of this cycle?

Back squat up to 5x320lb - groove not quite as tight as it was at the back of last cycle but strength was fine. Just another few minutes to ramp up and I would have been golden.

Onwards and upwards